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King James Version

Isaiah 52:3

For thus saith the Lord , Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Money;   Servant;   Scofield Reference Index - Sacrifice;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bondage, Spiritual;   Liberty-Bondage;   Sin;   Sold under Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Redemption;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Redemption;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Loan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Micah, Book of;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Isaiah, Book of;   Zion, Sion, Mount Zion;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Feasts;   Heritage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Redeemer;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Captivity;   Right and Righteousness;   Triennial Cycle;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For thus says the LORD, "You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed without money."
Bible in Basic English
For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thus saith the Lorde: ye are solde for naught, therfore shal ye be redeemed also without any money.
Darby Translation
For thus saith Jehovah: Ye have sold yourselves for nought, and ye shall be redeemed without money.
New King James Version
For thus says the LORD: "You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you shall be redeemed without money."
Literal Translation
For so says Jehovah: You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed with silver.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord says, "You were not sold for money. So I will not use money to set you free."
World English Bible
For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money.
King James Version (1611)
For thus sayth the Lord, Yee haue solde your selues for nought: and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thus saieth the LORDE: Ye are solde for naught, therfore shal ye be redemed also without eny money.
THE MESSAGE
God says, "You were sold for nothing. You're being bought back for nothing."
Amplified Bible
For the LORD says this, "You were sold for nothing and you will be redeemed, but not with money."
American Standard Version
For thus saith Jehovah, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Update Bible Version
For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
New Century Version
This is what the Lord says: "You were not sold for a price, so you will be saved without cost."
New English Translation
For this is what the Lord says: "You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money."
Contemporary English Version
The Lord says: My people, you were sold, but not for money; now you will be set free, but not for a payment.
Complete Jewish Bible
For thus says Adonai : "You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money."
Geneva Bible (1587)
For thus sayeth the Lorde, Yee were solde for naught: therefore shall ye be redeemed without money.
George Lamsa Translation
For thus says the LORD: You were sold for nought; and you shall be redeemed without money.
Hebrew Names Version
For thus says the LORD, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For thus saith the LORD: Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
New Living Translation
For this is what the Lord says: "When I sold you into exile, I received no payment. Now I can redeem you without having to pay for you."
New Life Bible
For the Lord says, "You were sold for nothing, and you will be bought without money and made free."
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thus saith the Lord, Ye have been sold for nought; and ye shall not be ransomed with silver.
English Revised Version
For thus saith the LORD, Ye were sold for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
Berean Standard Bible
For this is what the LORD says: "You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.
New Revised Standard
For thus says the Lord : You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, thus, saith Yahweh, For nought, ye sold yourselves, - And not with silver, shall ye be redeemed,
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thus saith the Lord: You were sold gratis, and you shall be redeemed, without money.
Lexham English Bible
For thus says Yahweh: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."
English Standard Version
For thus says the Lord : "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."
New American Standard Bible
For this is what the LORD says: "You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without money."
Good News Translation
The Sovereign Lord says to his people, "When you became slaves, no money was paid for you; in the same way nothing will be paid to set you free.
Christian Standard Bible®
For this is what the Lord says: "You were sold for nothing, and you will be redeemed without silver."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the Lord seith these thingis, Ye ben seeld without cause, and ye schulen be ayenbouyt with out siluer.
Revised Standard Version
For thus says the LORD: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.
Young's Literal Translation
For thus said Jehovah: `For nought ye have been sold, And not by money are ye redeemed.'

Contextual Overview

1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. 2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus saith the Lord , Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. 4 For thus saith the Lord God , My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord , that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord ; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 45:13, Isaiah 50:1, Psalms 44:12, Jeremiah 15:13, 1 Peter 1:18, Romans 7:14-25

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:54 - then Deuteronomy 32:30 - sold them 1 Kings 21:20 - thou hast sold 1 Kings 21:25 - sell himself Isaiah 52:5 - people Isaiah 55:1 - without money Ezekiel 16:31 - in that thou scornest Ezekiel 34:27 - when I Luke 4:18 - to preach deliverance

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord, ye have sold yourselves for nought,.... As Ahab did to work wickedness; as men do freely, and get nothing by it; for there is nothing got in the service of sin, Satan, and antichrist, or by being slaves and vassals to them; not profit, but loss; not pleasure, but pain; not honour, but shame; not liberty, but bondage; not riches and wealth, but poverty and want, which Popery always brings into those countries and people where it obtains.

And ye shall be redeemed without money; in like manner as our spiritual and eternal redemption from sin, Satan, and the law, the world, death, and hell, is obtained; not without the price of the precious blood of the Lamb, but without such corruptible things as silver and gold, 1 Peter 1:18 and without any price paid to those by whom we are held captive, but to God, against whom we have sinned, whose law we have broken, and whose justice must be satisfied; and the blood of Christ is a sufficient price to answer all: hence redemption, though it cost Christ much, is entirely free to us; so will the redemption of the church, from the bondage and slavery of antichrist, be brought about by the power of God undeserved by them; not through their merits, and without any ransom price paid to those who held them captives.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have sold yourselves for nought - You became captives and prisoners without any price being paid for you. You cost nothing to those who made you prisoners. The idea is, that as they who had made them prisoners had done so without paying any price for them, it was equitable that they should be released in the same manner. When their captors had paid nothing for them, God would suffer nothing to be paid for them in turn; and they should be released, as they had been sold, without a price paid for them. Perhaps God intends here to reproach them for selling themselves in this manner without any compensation of any kind, and to show them the folly of it; but, at the same time, he intends to assure them that no price would be paid for their ransom.

Ye shall be redeemed - You shall be delivered from your long and painful captivity without any price being paid to the Babylonians. This was to be a remarkable proof of the power of God. Men do not usually give up captives and slaves, in whatever way they may have taken them, without demanding a price or ransom. But here God says that he designs to effect their deliverance without any such price being demanded or paid, and that as they had gone into captivity unpurchased, so they should return unpurchased. Accordingly he so overruled events as completely to effect this. The Babylonians, perhaps, in no way could have been induced to surrender them. God, therefore, designed to raise up Cyrus, a mild, just, and equitable prince; and to dispose him to suffer the exiles to depart, and to aid them in their return to their own land. In this way, they were rescued without money and without price, by the interposition of another.


 
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